"Price and /or volume showed UNEXPECTED strength. I hear the rumour mill slowly groaning back to life."

You may be totally correct, or you can look at FNC as just gaining ground back from an assault on it and just doing it's usual rangy thing it's been doing for months. SPQ has been diddling between .05 and .06 for a long time so the up for the day isn't significant yet perhaps. BMK has been slowly decending with moments of a penny or two rise so there is no substantiation of any trend happening here..... but still there could be. If anyone finds this upsetting and wishes to accuse me of being negative I think you'd be stretching the point.